Entergy plans another major solar project, this one near Lake Village

A state Public Service Commission docket indicates Entergy Arkansas is continuing to expand its power generation to renewable sources — specifically a 100-megawatt generating facility in Chicot County.

Testimony on the PSC docket indicates the company has a 20-year agreement to purchase power from Chicot Solar LLC, a solar voltaic project to be built near Lake Village that would connect to an existing transmission line between Lake Village and Reed. Chicot Solar is an affiliate of NextEra Energy, a global supplier of wind and solar energy. The company proposes to put the project online by 2020.

It would be similar to an 81-MW project Entergy is building near
Stuttgart.

The company's filing said it could demonstrate that it complies with legislative requirements that the cost of the power would be reasonable, provide savings to retail customers and would supplement existing generating resources in the public interest.

No filings yet from the attorney general's office. Leslie Rutledge has been pushing against environmental regulations to help the coal industry stay in the power generating business.

Hillary Clinton's campaign for president illustrates again the double standard applied to women. Some writers get it. They even find the supposedly unlikable Clinton inspiring.

With a pivotal ruling expected any day now from the Public Service Commission, Kyle Massey at Arkansas Business reports on the increase in Arkansans adding solar generation units on their homes and business.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson apparently felt the burn from KARK's exclusive Tuesday night on his plans to cut state support of War Memorial Stadium in half beginning July 1, 2018. He has a so-far secret plan to make the stadium self-sustaining. We bet that doesn't include state support.

The State Police say Brett McCullough, 52, of Hot Springs, was killed by a hit-and-run driver while riding a bicycle about 8:47 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 70 West (Airport Road) in Hot Springs.

Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Bart Virden of Morrilton, who narrowly survived attack ads by an outside partisan group supporting his opponent for re-election to a nonpartisan seat, doesn't intend to let the matter drop.

Enjoy these photos from today's dedication and re-installation of a new Ten Commandments monument. The first iteration of the monument was installed last June but destroyed within the next 24 hours when it was rammed by a man in a Dodge Dart.